The Japanese, looking as they do for essences in landscapes, enjoy the transi- ence of nature; how the cherry blossoms are here today, gone tomorrow, and will return again next year, and the next after that. Everyone who constitutes a landscape must also cope on that landscape, and in that struggle everyone who beholds landscapes can become sensitive to what is going on as the world continues on, even though they may not know its deep history in geological and evolutionary time. They know context, if not origins. They know their environment, in the lower case; but they also know dimensions.
